The Washington Times
If course he seeks quick approval. The two of them are maniacal. If Roberts isn't confirmed for Chief then they'll settle for Associate. They both know this nomination is a bunch of junk. They both know he is under qualified. They don't care they like to punt on the 'chance' their cronies will see it all through on the promise of being re-elected with the destruction of the Constitution. I would love to know what the other Justices think about now. It's unfortunate that Scalia will be second best when Roberts isn't accepted as Chief. I am sure the fear of Scalia is enough for many to RUSH the nomination through.
Bush Seeks Quick Approval
Bush Nominates Roberts as Chief Justice
President Seeks Quick Approval With Another Seat Left to Fill
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page A01
President Bush nominated John G. Roberts Jr. yesterday as the 17th chief justice of the United States, promoting his nominee for associate justice to lead the Supreme Court and the rest of the federal judiciary even before Roberts was confirmed for the first assignment.
Moving swiftly as he copes with the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Bush announced his decision just two days after the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and 48 days after picking Roberts to succeed retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. In elevating Roberts, Bush chose the candidate most likely to be confirmed in short order by the Senate, which was poised to ratify the appeals court judge for O'Connor's seat.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090500173.html
Democrats Pledge More Intense Scrutiny of Roberts
With His Confirmation Still Expected, the Real Battle Focuses on a Successor to O'Connor
By Jo Becker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page A06
Senate Democrats yesterday promised to subject John G. Roberts Jr. to an increased level of scrutiny in light of President Bush's decision to nominate the 50-year-old appeals court judge to replace the late William H. Rehnquist as chief justice.
But with conservatives and liberals alike saying that Roberts is on track to be confirmed, the focus was already shifting to what both sides believe will be the real battle: Bush's yet-to-be-named pick to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
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Ride 'em, Convict!
At the Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo, Inmates Bust Loose
By Paul Schwartzman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page C01
McALESTER, Okla.
The pink billowing sky fades to black over the rodeo arena as the Friday night crowd ambles in, women in slinky halter tops and dark red lipstick, men in cowboy hats and blue jeans, tins of tobacco pressed into their back pockets.
Along a back row of concrete benches, LaDonna Meadows, 63, lifts herself from a wheelchair and stands on an artificial leg, her hand over her heart. On white horses, a parade of riders, with sequined crosses stuck to the backs of their red-white-and-blue vests, circles the arena while a singer delivers a honey-smooth rendition of "God Bless America."
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INDEED. GOD BLESS IT !!!!
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REACTIONARY. These guys are stupid beyond any imagination. NO FORESIGHT what so ever.
GOP Agenda Shifts as Political Trials Grow
Katrina Puts Estate Tax Repeal on Ice
By Shailagh Murray and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page A06
As Congress returns from its August recess today, Republicans face a far more troubling political landscape than the one they left a month ago, according to lawmakers in both parties.
Gasoline prices have skyrocketed, the Bush administration is being widely criticized for its handling of Hurricane Katrina, and as the war in Iraq grows increasingly unpopular, the president's approval ratings have sunk to an all-time low. Further complicating the picture is a rare double vacancy on the Supreme Court, which could trigger sniping between the GOP's center and right wing if not deftly handled.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090501405.html
Toll Suspected to Soar as Body Recovery Begins
Two Temporary Morgues Set Up to Handle Thousands in What Could Be Deadliest U.S. Natural Disaster
By Jacqueline L. Salmon and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; Page A10
ST. GABRIEL, La., Sept. 5 -- Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing floods along the Gulf Coast could mark one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, as the macabre task of locating and cataloguing its dead moves into its early stages. Officials estimate the death toll could rise to several thousand over coming days.
The search-and-rescue efforts in coastal communities of Louisiana and Mississippi are turning their focus to recovering the bodies, as workers attempt to reach isolated communities that were ravaged by high winds and flooding that reached rooftops. The more than 200 confirmed dead suggest a grimmer total, as rescuers break residential windows to find bodies floating in flooded houses, to discover victims under piles of tree limbs, wood planks and rocks, and to secure bodies found floating in the streets to fence posts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/05/AR2005090501635.html?nav=hcmodule
Guardian Unlimited
Bush team tries to pin blame on local officials
Julian Borger in Washington
Monday September 5, 2005
The Guardian
Bush administration officials yesterday blamed state and local officials for the delays in bringing relief to New Orleans, as the president struggled to fend off the most serious political crisis of his presidency.
His top officials continued to be pilloried on television talk shows by liberals and conservatives alike, but the White House began to show signs of an evolving strategy to prevent the relief fiasco from eclipsing the president's second term.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1562882,00.html
Network Rail convicted over Hatfield safety breach
Staff and agencies
Tuesday September 6, 2005
Network Rail was today convicted at the Old Bailey of breaking safety rules in the months before the Hatfield rail disaster.
Five railway bosses who had been accused alongside Network Rail, which was formerly known as Railtrack, were cleared of all charges.
Four people died and 102 were injured when the King's Cross to Leeds train came off the tracks at 115mph on October 17 2000.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hatfieldtraincrash/story/0,7369,1563842,00.html
Draining begins amid levee repairs
David Fickling and agencies
Tuesday September 6, 2005
A large sandbag is lowered into a broken section of a levee in New Orleans. Photographer: Smiley N Pool/AP
United States army engineers have plugged one of the biggest gaps in the levee system surrounding New Orleans and started to pump water from the flooded city.
The US army corps of engineers strengthened the damaged barrier along the 17th Street canal in the west of the city using metal sheets, before dropping dozens of 1,200kg sandbags onto the 135 metre breach from helicopters.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1563650,00.html
Binge thinking
Peter Haydon calls for a more rigorous debate about our drinking habits, and a return to our time-honoured passion for ale
Tuesday September 6, 2005
Women drink at a bar in central London. Photograph:Toby Melville /Reuters
Last month, Judge Charles Harris announced on the Today programme that "a very large proportion of domestic violence is committed by people who have been drinking - and if they hadn't been so drinking so much, they wouldn't be so violent".
'Twas ever thus. In 1751, novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding wrote: "Wretches are often brought before me, charged with theft and robbery, whom I am forced to confine before they are in a condition to be examined: and when they have afterwards become sober, I have plainly perceived from the state of case that the gin alone was the cause of the transgression."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1563777,00.html
'MI5 agent' conman jailed for life
Staff and agencies
Tuesday September 6, 2005
A conman who posed as an MI5 spy during a £1m "odyssey of deceit" was jailed for life today.
Robert Hendy-Freegard, a 34-year old semi-literate former car salesman nicknamed "The Puppetmaster", seduced and ruthlessly exploited his victims during a 10-year period, Blackfriars crown court heard.
The court, in London, was told he convinced some to go on the run from terrorists and swindled others out of huge sums of money.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1563738,00.html
Nine die as concrete block hits cable car line
Sam Jones
Tuesday September 6, 2005
The Guardian
Nine German tourists, including six children, were killed yesterday when a helicopter dropped a concrete block on a cable car line they were travelling on at a popular Austrian ski resort.
The helicopter was ferrying building materials to a construction site atop a nearby mountain when the 750kg (1,650lb) block tumbled free, knocking one car off the cable and leaving others swinging so violently that their passengers were thrown out.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/austria/article/0,2763,1563593,00.html
Sands of Mars may hold vast reservoir of water
Research shows dunes could be 50% snow and ice, US scientist says
Tim Radford, science editor
Tuesday September 6, 2005
The Guardian
The sands of Mars, which hold the biggest dunes in the solar system, could contain up to 50% snow and ice, a US scientist told the British Association festival of science meeting in Dublin yesterday.
The discovery could be of enormous significance. President George Bush has named Mars as the destination for a manned mission in the next 30 years. Nasa and the European Space Agency both plan orbiter missions and robot landings in the next decade.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1563597,00.html
Eight hostages killed in airport battle
Thursday September 7, 1972
The Guardian
September 6
All eight Israeli hostages captured by Arab guerrillas at the Olympic village yesterday were killed this morning during an attempt to release them at an airport near Munich.
Four Arab guerrillas and a policeman also died in the battle at the airport.
After a day spent in negotiations the German authorities provided helicopters to take the Arabs and their captives to the airfield where a plane was said to be waiting to take them to an Arab capital. At one time it was reported that the hostages had been freed. But it is unofficially reported that an Arab guerrilla, finding himself surrounded, went back into one of the helicopters and exploded a grenade.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1298214,00.html
The Chicago Tribune
How deep does it run? All the way to the core of their value system !!!! THE SUNNY SIDE? ARE YOU ALL FOR REAL? A FORMER FIRST LADY SEES THIS AS A SUNNY SIDE? That is an outrage. The poor little nigers from the south get a break, huh? My, my, I should shut up and be grateful there was a hurricane at all !! It rather convenient that those in Texas are poor and happy for three squares a day. DEAR GOD, GET THEM OUT OF MY LIFE !!! AHHHHH !!!! That is a value system? That is no value system I recognize as benevolent. Those people lived in abject poverty. They suffered all their lives to come to what? To some hope at the end of death of many of their community at the negligence of their society. THAT'S A SUNNY SIDE? I'm appauled ! Who is the REAL WHITE TRASH here?
Barbara Bush sees sunny side
The president's mom says Astrodome evacuees "were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them."
Bush, Clinton Announce Katrina Relief Fund
By PAM EASTON
Associated Press Writer
Published September 6, 2005, 4:59 AM CDT
HOUSTON -- Former Presidents Bush and Clinton got smiles, hugs and requests for autographs when they met with refugees from Hurricane Katrina -- but it was Bush's wife who got attention for some of her comments.
Barbara Bush, who accompanied the former presidents on a tour of the Astrodome complex Monday, said the relocation to Houston is "working very well" for some of the poor people forced out of New Orleans.
"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said during a radio interview with the American Public Media program "Marketplace." "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-katrina-former-presidents,1,852548.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Katrina's Victims Poorer Than U.S. Average
By FRANK BASS
Associated Press Writer
Published September 4, 2005, 3:53 PM CDT
People living in the path of Hurricane Katrina's worst devastation were twice as likely as most Americans to be poor and without a car -- factors that may help explain why so many failed to evacuate as the storm approached.
An Associated Press analysis of Census data shows that the residents in the three dozen hardest-hit neighborhoods in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama also were disproportionately minority and had incomes $10,000 below the national average.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-katrina-demographics-of-destruction,1,6596581.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Paper to president: Feds blew it
Tribune staff reporters John Bebow, Lisa Black, Mary Ann Fergus, James Janega and John von Rhein contributed to this report. Tribune news services also contributed
Published September 6, 2005
The high winds of blame continued to circulate Monday around Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Echoing the frustration of local officials who have complained for days of slow federal response, the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper called for the removal of every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry," the paper said Sunday in an open letter to President Bush. "Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That's to the government's shame."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509060173sep06,1,2637494.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Bush Now Spending Time on Hurricane-Relief
By WILL LESTER
Associated Press Writer
Published September 6, 2005, 1:29 AM CDT
WASHINGTON -- President Bush is spending much of his time these days on relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina after his administration was harshly criticized for an initial response to the storm called slow and inadequate.
Visiting the devastated region again Monday, Bush tried to repair tattered relations with Louisiana's Democratic governor, Kathleen Blanco, while also praising relief workers.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-katrina-washington,1,6658751.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Obama says hurricane victims will need long-term support
By Mike Colias
Associated Press Writer
Published September 5, 2005, 10:49 PM CDT
Sen. Barack Obama said Monday that Americans should prepare to support displaced Hurricane Katrina victims for months to come.
Obama returned to Chicago Monday after visiting evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston along with former Presidents Bush and Clinton. Obama said the 25,000 evacuees appear to be getting the necessary clothing, food and shelter after suffering in New Orleans last week.
"I think the bigger question is going to be 'How do we provide longer term housing and employment opportunities?"' Obama, D-Ill., said during a news conference at the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago.
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Surveying the damage
By Paul Salopek and Lisa Anderson
Tribune staff reporters
Published September 5, 2005, 10:55 PM CDT
NEW ORLEANS -- Sobered by the suggestion that the death toll may rise to 10,000 people by the time the waters recede from this shattered and increasingly empty city, New Orleans-area residents finally found something to cheer them Monday: One of the city's ruptured levees was restored and several thousand people briefly returned home to assess their losses and to realistically consider their futures.
For hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents—jobless, homeless or both—Labor Day was a time for taking stock, as President Bush made his second visit to the region in three days, the military dramatically increased its presence in the striken region and the New Orleans Police Department announced a chilling decrease in the size of its force.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050905hurricane,1,6959718.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Chaos of Katrina Drives Cop to Suicide
By CAIN BURDEAU
Associated Press Writer
Published September 6, 2005, 5:41 AM CDT
NEW ORLEANS -- Life wasn't supposed to end this way for Sgt. Paul Accardo: alone in chaos.
He wrote a note telling anyone who found him who to contact -- a fellow officer. He was precise, and thoughtful, to the end. Then he stuck a gun into his mouth and killed himself.
Accardo was one of two city cops who committed suicide last week as New Orleans descended into an abyss of death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. He was found in an unmarked patrol car on Saturday in a downtown parking lot.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/sns-ap-katrina-driven-to-suicide-hk1,1,2485000.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Lance Armstrong, Sheryl Crow Engaged
By Associated Press
Published September 6, 2005, 8:11 AM CDT
AUSTIN, Texas -- Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and rock star Sheryl Crow are engaged. The cyclist announced the engagement in a statement Monday, and said he asked Crow on Wednesday while they were in Sun Valley, Idaho.
No wedding date has been set, although it could be a spring wedding, Armstrong spokesman Mark Higgins said.
Armstrong retired in July after winning his seventh straight Tour.
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